My +1 to Vimal. A live CD/DVD is the best solution for testing Koha, leave a simple installation to new users for evaluation, and so on. Stefano

Dear Friends,

Live CD/DVDs are essential part of any Free software project. We can find that Live CD/DVDs are available in many popular Free software projects like Dspace and Eprints. Live CD/DVDs are easy to try and install for non techies. Manual installation of Koha is difficult process for most of library professionals. In the present situation, Koha project has not released official Live CD/DVD. It is high time to think about the development of an official live cd/dvd from Koha team. In my experience, popularity of Koha increased in India after the availability of live cd/dvd. Organising Koha workshops are now easy with Koha Live cd/dvd. Installation of Koha by participants in workshops ate good part of the time. Now participants can try Koha at home or workplace after the workshop without much effort.

I had created a live cd and dvd based on Ubuntu 10.04 with the help of Remastersys. https://sourceforge.net/projects/kohalivecd-lite https://sourceforge.net/projects/kohalivedvd/

But I could not develop a live cd based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS due to its incompatibility with Remastersys. Lot of other live cd/dvds are available and useful for community; library professsionals, LIS teachers, students and research scholars. I request Koha community and developers should think about the release of official Koha Live CD/DVD. Then only we can achieve uniformity in Koha Live CD/DVD development and release.

Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V.

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